Since 2018, the Criminal Finances Act, gave the possibility to the NCA to invoke (under court approval) Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWO) to seize assets worth more than £50.000 in cases of discrepancies between income and results of analysis.
The orders were referring to 3 London based residential high end properties which were bought by offshore companies.
The aforementioned companies were linked to a political exposed individual with alleged links to criminal offences.
The NCA noted that such sort of schemes have been identified to be widely used by Russian launderers.
